From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:04:36 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [1/2] vmalloc: Show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo Message-ID: <20080319210436.191bb8fe@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080318222827.291587297@sgi.com> References: <20080318222701.788442216@sgi.com> <20080318222827.291587297@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0700 Christoph Lameter wrote: > Implement a new proc file that allows the display of the currently > allocated vmalloc memory. > + proc_create("vmallocinfo",S_IWUSR|S_IRUGO, NULL, why should non-root be able to read this? sounds like a security issue (info leak) to me... -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org